READ MORE: 15 Inspiring Audre Lorde Quotes “I cannot be simply a Black person and not be a woman too, nor can I be a woman without being a lesbian.” “I am not one piece of myself,” she said in a 1979 interview. Her next volumes, From a Land Where Other People Live (1973) and New York Head Shop and Museum (1974), were more rhetorical and political.Audre Lorde never felt like she fit into a box - and any category she did identify with reflected just one sliver of who she was. In 1968 her first volume of poetry, The First Cities, was published, and Lorde briefly left New York to become poet-in-residence at Toogaloo College in Mississippi.Ĭables to Rage (1970) explored her anger at social and personal injustice and contained the first poetic expression of her lesbianism. She married in 1962 and wrote poetry while working as a librarian at Town School in New York she also taught English at Hunter College. in 1959 and a master’s degree in library science in 1961. The daughter of Grenadan parents, Lorde attended Hunter College and received a B.A. Virgin Islands), American poet, essayist, and autobiographer known for her passionate writings on lesbian feminism and racial issues.

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